Writer: Lally Katz

Lally is a graduate of the School of Studies in Creative Arts (VCA/Melbourne University). She is the recipient of two playwrighting awards from Playworks and one from St Martins. Lally's commissions have included Pirate Eyes for Melbourne University's Union House Theatre, (May 2001), The Starlet Twins for Sydney's PACT Youth Theatre, (January 2002) The Last Episode of the Bubble Teens for St Martins Youth Theatre (May 2002) and Outlookers for Arena Theatre, (Victorian tour, Out of the Box festival, Brisbane, Sydney Opera House studio and Capital E Festival in Wellington) . Other plays include The Liquorice Nurse (2003, VCA Director's graduate season), Dead Girls are Fantastic (2000 Next Wave Festival), Tabitha to Saturn (1999 Mudfest and 2000 Adelaide Fringe), Clothes for a Corpse (which toured to Singapore in 1998), A Quarreling Pair (Aphids, MIFA 2004), Smashed at the Store Room (2005) and the creative development of Slanting Into the Void with Peepshow Inc. She has had two plays presented at Playbox' Theatre in the Raw. Recently Lally studied writing at the Royal Court Theatre in London .

Lally's first screenplay, a Familiar Lullaby, This Time in German was filmed in 2004 in Hamburg , directed by Ben Chessell. For SPST she has written The Eisteddfod, co-written site specific multimedia work Agoraphobe (Next Wave Kickstart) and The Black Swan of Trespass (Green Room award - Best Writing, and Melbourne Fringe MIFA award for excellence.) She is currently writing Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano for SPST to premiere at Theatreworks in June, Missing Link for Arena Theatre Company, a co-commission with Chris Kohn for Malthouse Theatre to premiere in 2008 and will be co-writing with Tom Wright Criminology for Arena Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre, to open in 2007.